Christmas has been kicked around quite a bit in the 21st Century. For a while there the anti-theists seemed to be gaining ground. It was all “Happy Holidays” and “Seasons Greetings” everywhere and all the time. Unless you were leaving the church hall following services, the sound of “Merry Christmas” coming from a live human being was about as likely as getting someone to hit your website when it is listed on page two of Google.

It’s funny how all those little things during the hustle and bustle of the Advent season can start to grate on you, and before you know it, you begin to feel more like the Grinch than someone anticipating the birth of the Savior.

The Grocery Greeting

The Safeway in our little village decided that the best way to expand was not to enlarge the store – but to make the aisles smaller. It has become a snug little environment, where only one cart may pass at a time. Thus, you are likely to talk the entire shopping trip. Comments like, “Oh, sorry,” “Pardon me,” “Oops, can I get by,” ring out often. Then there are the Scrooges: “Why do they make these aisles so damn small?” “Can you move your cart now, please?”

While barreling down grocery aisle 11 at a breakneck pace, I ran into another woman who was doing her own version of “speed shopping.” She ended our little exchange with “Merry Christmas!” Taken aback I began to observe my many bumper cart moments and, lo and behold, almost all seemed to end with “Merry Christmas!” By the time I reached the car, I had counted 14 of them. And they weren’t the mumbled-under-your-breath ones like “I hope I didn’t just offend someone.” No, no, they were hale and hearty greetings.

This event was preceded by a grade school orchestra belting out “O Holy Night” as we were making our way through an airport. Then there was the canned airport music which rang out with “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”

Ho, Ho, Ho. Could this be a trend?

Remember when candidate Trump said over and over that he was going to say “Merry Christmas”? Was this a gateway drug to a kinder, perhaps even more free Christmas? Pondering this question, a seed of joy began to emerge somewhere down deep. Well, you can guess what happened next, I’m sure.

Someone sent me this picture, which was blocked from Facebook for “graphic content.”

So, Santa kneeling in prayer and (horror of horrors) perhaps even worshiping the Baby Jesus has become “graphic content”? It was apparently so egregious that Facebook covered the image, so it appeared like this:

The folks that pull the strings on these social platforms must have their algorithms set too high – just like when everything beeps while going through airport security. Aunt Agatha’s hip pin – beeep! Freddie’s metal ankle plate – beeep! You get the picture. Here, they see Jesus and prayer and beeep! Their sensors go into censor mode.

It’s ironic that the internet is largely becoming more oppressive and regressive than what we are beginning to experience in the public square. Even the corporate world seems to be loosening up a bit. One Christian website lists “the good, the bad, and the ugly” regarding Christmas censorship. They track merchants who are willing to use the word “Christmas” in advertising, promotion, on the web, and in their stores. Among those in the “good” category are:

Amazon

American Eagle Outfitters

Bath and Body Works

Bed, Bath and Beyond

Big Lots

Dillard’s

Hobby Lobby

Home Goods

JC Penney

JoAnn Fabrics

KB Toys

Linen N’ Things

Lord & Taylor

L.L. Bean

Macy’s

Michaels

Mrs. Field’s Cookies

Neiman Marcus

Sam’s Club

Sears

Wal-Mart

There are still plenty of outrageous obstructions hindering the free expression of Christmas and its meaning in America. They are still there.

But …

In the spirit of Christmas, perhaps those of us who celebrate the holiday as a holy day may be able to offer a bit of unmerited grace to those in the social censorship world as they wrestle with their inner demons while playing cyber-god. Let’s not permit these petty little cyber-gods to steal our joy this Christmas, especially when we can justifiably feel a bit buoyed by the few baby steps toward freedom and liberty we see happening around us.

$1 spent on a state level costs $10 if that same job is done on a federal level (Now imagine ‘world’ dollars – mostly US- sucked
into the UN).

Consider the huge savings of tax dollars for needless federal dept of education pensions, infrastructure,
support services etc., etc. if the states took back education (and it’s lands, resources and everything else not ‘federally’
mandated by our Constitution).

Our federal dept. has been an accomplice/wedge for UN take over and control of the USA, our children and
our resources.

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Excerpt:
In other words, ideology is injected into the educational system and is allowed to mutate freely from that point on. What it eventually becomes is of little consequence; the desired effect is for the reigning ideology to become destabilized. His point here is key to a successful ideological subversion: channeling a generation of malleable young minds through an educational system that inculcates the subversive ideology is a necessary component for the long-term normalization of the subversive ideology.
‘4 Stages Of Ideological Subversion’https://dissidentright.com/2015/12/15/on-subversion/

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“It is in the interest of Tyrants to reduce the people to Ignorance and
Vice. For they cannot live in any Country where Virtue and Knowledge
prevail. The religion and public Liberty of a People are intimately
connected; their Interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately;
and therefore they rise and fall together. For this Reason, it is always
observable, that those who are combined to destroy the People’s Liberties,
practice every Art to poison their Morals”. Sam Adams

Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the author of “Free At Last: A Life-Changing Journey through the Gospel of Luke.”

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Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the author of “Free At Last: A Life-Changing Journey through the Gospel of Luke.”